Hit: Libraries and achievement

[Christine Hatami <FruitDoc@AOL.COM>]

Thanks to all who responded to my request for the research.

Here's the website for the Texas study comparing Texas school libraries and
student performance:
 <A 
HREF="http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/schlibsurvey/index.html">http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/schlibsurvey/index.html</A>


Go to http://www.aea9.k12.ia.us and look under the resources list for the one
labeled Iowa Study.

http://www.ala.org/aasl/resources/achievement.html The following can be found
at this link:

Lance, Keith Curry, Marcia J. Rodney and Christine Hamilton-Pennell. How
School Librarians Help Kids Achieve Standards. Denver: Library Research
Service, 2000.
www.lrs.org/documents/lmcstudies/CO/execsumm.pdf

Lance, Keith Curry. "The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic
Achievement." School Library Media Quarterly 22, no. 3 (Spring 1994):
167-170, 172.
www.ala.org/aasl/SLMR/slmr_resources/select_lance.html

Lance, Keith Curry, Marcia J. Rodney and Christine Hamilton-Pennell.
Measuring Up to Standards: The Impact of School Libraries & Information
Literacy in Pennsylvania Schools. Greensburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Citizens for
Better Libraries, 2000.
www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/PDF_files/measuringup.pdf

Baughman, James C. MACS and School Libraries: Making the Connection
www.simmons.edu/~baughman/mcas-school-libraries/Baughman%20Paper.pdf

Study presented at a symposium that finds, despite the "deplorable condition"
of Massachusetts public school libraries, that higher student MCAS scores at
all grade levels can be directly linked to the presence of quality school
library media programs.

Go to the ALA page, and look for the Colorado studies. That should help.

http://www.bcpl.net/~dcurtis/libraryfacts/#anchor35975165

Christine Hatami
K-5 School, NYC
fruitdoc@aol.com

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